Medicine: Life Force

"This pregnancy is no different from my others," said the Oklahoma
housewife mildly. Physicians had indeed found that their 27-year-old
patient had just about all the obvious signs of a four-month pregnancy.
What flabbergasted them was the knowledge that two years before, she
had undergone a hysterectomy, and thus could not possibly have
conceived.

Last week the University of Oklahoma Hospitals reported that rarely in
medical annals has the poignant phenomenon of false
pregnancypseudocyesissurvived such odds of matter over mind.
Pseudocyesis is older than Hippocrates, has affected subjects from
seven to 79....